AMAZON ATROCITIES
VENEZUELAN ADVENTURER’S LITTLE PLEASANTRIES.
LONDON, July 21
A Californian traveller reports that Francesco: Suarez, a Venezuelan, with native forces, has established control at Beni on the river Amazon, and exacts rubber from the natives by terrible atrocities.
BLOOD-STAINED WEALTH.
(Received July 22, 10.40 p.m.)
LONDON July 22. Saurez amassed a- fabulous fortune. He subjected natives to progressive amputation and torture, and finally to decapitation. Others were manacled and left to perish from heat and starvation.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 7
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